Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1764912f07a3f881…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-13 14:17:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4f5d214841bccd2e7be7607c2c420f6c SHA-1: 38c302044eb11c7e059332f26c97011ee1721060 SHA-256: 1764912f07a3f881055819e02e199aa78e83fb1518edc261fd5528972b14fb00
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=ez%20pdf%20reader%20pro%20apk%20full, is flagged as a malicious redirector, indicating a likely attempt to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=ez%20pdf%20reader%20pro%20apk%20full
    • http://bomewe.trivalleysir34.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455158/5688734.pdf
    • http://files.theabsurdists.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681672/1495146.pdf
    • http://zuduvo.wrhs65.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/pagimiva-fafad-xobulumovige.pdf
    • http://files.freetodreamvacay.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163898/67ab127e.pdf
    • http://bojuz.cornwallplants.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636664/vuximira.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3738/2040/files/xotodaxivesixavoguzovogir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3352/4386/files/22428133358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5428/4450/files/73752226844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6012/4065/files/votaroxapilifeli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0774/5958/files/arabic_bilingual_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/42561497249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4568/2328/files/43403694607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8422/6453/files/zosizuxadiditus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0401/files/football_manager_2016_iphone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4695/9261/files/most_popular_discord_servers.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064fd.bin
ead6cf829a4da7531cfa7201b8bd116df4b40830e46129191b6f1b1b6213ba45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64FD 4928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075e1.bin
3d721b54900a6f1d1d04b5c9ab6f2b6f60567eca84edc5caa7b65cf254184efa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75E1 10876 bytes